The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty. Honda raises and educates the boy, yet watches him, waiting.
| ISBN: | 9780099284574 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 2001 |
| Author: | Yukio Mishima |
| Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 236 pages |
| Series: | The Sea of Fertility : A Cycle of Four Novels |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Modern and Contemporary Fiction |